COLLECTION OF 
i. INTERESTING 

AND HISTORIC 

PRINTS 



A COLLECTION OF 
INTERESTING AND 
HISTORIC PRINTS 



BEING A BRIEF PRESENTATION OF 

SOME OF THE ORIGINALS AND REPRODUCTIONS 

IN THE POSSESSION OF THE 

STATE STREET TRUST 

'' COMPANY 



PRINTED FOR THE 

STATE STREET TRUST COMPANY 

BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 






COPTRIGHTE D 
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TRUST COMPANY 



COMPILED ARRANGED 
AND PRINTED UNDER 
THE DIRECTION OF THE 
WALTON ADVERTISING 
AND PRINTING COMPANY 
BOSTON MASS 



Cla. A,^2-^ 97^ 
JUL 26^t909 



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NTRODUCTION 

The State Street Trust Company takes this 
means of presenting to you its compliments. 
It hopes this booklet of historic prints will be 
of interest to you. All of the reproductions 
are taken from copies or originals in the pos- 
session of this company, which are to be seen 
at its main office, 38 State Street. Many of 
them depict some interesting phase of Boston's 
history. Please consider this booklet also as 
an invitation for you to inspect the prints 
from which these reproductions have been 
made. 




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Boston Massacre, State Street, corner of Exchange 
Street, night of March 5, 1770. First bloodshed of the 
Revolution, seven citizens killed by British soldiers. 
Building at right, marked "Butcher's Hall" and "Custom 
House," in front of which soldiers stand, marks site of 
State Street Trust Company to-day. 




Union Building, home of the State Stkeet Trust 
Company. Built about 1810. Here was the house 

AND dry-goods SHOP OF AnTHONY StODDARD, THE RICHEST 
BoSTONIAN and GREATEST REAL ESTATE OPERATOR OF HIS 

TIME. The record of his death in 1687 says, "He 

WAS THE ANCIENTIST SHOPKEEPER IN TOWNE." DoWNING 

Street, London, the diplomatic centre of the British 
Empire, was named for Mrs. Stoddard's brother, 
George Downing. Stoddard's house seems to have 
become the States Arms tavern, where the magistrates 
from the town house dined, and was succeeded by 

THE royal custom HOUSE, WHICH IN TURN WAS FOLLOWED 
BY THE PRESENT UnION BuILDING. ThE StOCK EXCHANGE 
WAS HERE IN THE EARLY FIFTIES. ThIS CORNER WAS 
STARTING-POINT FOR FIRST REGULAR STAGE-COACH TO NeW 

York City, in 1772. 



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Exchange Building. Built 1841, demolished 1889, 
and succeeded by the present exchange build- 

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doned AS A PLACE OF WORSHIP IN 187'2. ThE BRICK 
BLOCK AT THE LEFl^ WAS THE FIRST BUSINESS BLOCK 

BUILT IN Boston. The sidewalk in front of it was 

ALSO THE EARLIEST CONSTRUCTED HERE, AND WAS FOR 
YEARS BEFORE AND AFTER 1800 THE FASHIONABLE 
AFTERNOON PROMENADE OF THE TOWN. 




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Exchange Coffee House, Boston's j:arliest "sky- 
scraper" AND the finest PUBLIC HOUSE OF ITS DAY. 

Built 1808, burned 1819. Its site is now numbered 
19-25 Congress Street. It was bounded on three sides- 
BY Congress Square. It was the temporary home of 
Davy Crockett and of President Monroe, when each 
VISITED Boston, about 1818. 




Birthplace of General Joseph Warrex, who fell 
AT Bunker Hill. Built 17'^0, demolished 184G. The 

HOUSE that succeeded IT IS NUMBERED 130 WaRREN StREET, 
ROXBURY. 







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